Love and Terror - The Big Picture with Jack Atherton

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven oh six at fifty five kr CE detalk station.
Happy Wednesday. It's a great day to be tuned into
fifty five Cassee Morning Show at the right time. It
is time everyone's here at this moment, Big Picture with
Jack Addan dak Avidan. It is great for you to
be on the program from my perspective, but my listeners
really enjoy your thoughts, comments and insight and intellect. And

(00:22):
I have no idea what you're going to be talking
about today, which is typically the case, but love and terror.
Welcome back. Jack, appreciate you coming on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I have no idea either, But happy holidays, my friend,
right that guy you actually let's talk about this. Christians
will soon celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus. Jews are
about to break out menorah's and dredles to celebrate Hanukkah,
the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, and soon Muslims
will be marking the miraculous nighttime journey of the prophet

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Mohammed from Mecca to Jerusalem and then up to Heaven
where he met Adam, Moses, and Jesus. So who couldn't
be filled with love this time of year?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Here, let me. Look around me, Jack, at the multitude
of articles that I see where people clearly are not
in a festive holiday, love filled state of emotions.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I know I've heard some of your SCC non compliance.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I know, I know we all slipped.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, well, sadly, quite a few people who profess love
preach hate, even terror in their quest to regain power,
like many in your great audience. I'm a child of
the sixties, when hippies flashed peace signs. Actually in places
like hate Ashbury, they flashed a lot more than that.
They flashed everything. The peace signs and peaceful sittings and

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songs like All You Need Is Love, stopped the Vietnam War,
they forced Lyndon Johnson out of the White House, supported
our new civil rights laws as well as women's and
gay rights movements, and, perhaps most fun for teenagers like me,
the sexties gave us the sexual Revolution, but lurking within
the free love, free pot communes from Berkeley to Woodstock

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with something a lot more sinister, authoritarian, big government socialism.
While everyone was singing Beatles tunes, a lot of kids
like Hillary Clinton and a little later Barack Obama, were
studying Herbert Marcusa. I don't know how many people remember him,
but he was a disciple of Karl Marx, and they

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also studied Saul Alinsky, a disciple of Machiavelli, with his
ruthless devotion to ends justifying the means. When it comes
to securing power, the all you need is love. Hippie
Revolution brought us Ivy League credentialed I don't say educated,
just credentialed elite to talitarians now attacking the foundation of

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America limited decentralized government and Adam Smith capitalism based on
free choice, not mandates, free enterprise, and free but fair markets.
It's that's where tariffs come in. We'll talk about that
some other time. We've seen this before, free love and
the demand for free stuff giving way to dictatorship. Ancient

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Rome had what we'd now call proletarian rebellions. They led
to military strong men and then emperors. The French Revolution
started out with ordinary people demanding from aristocrats a place
a seat in the National Assembly. The revolutionaries were called
leftists because they took seats on the left side of

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the assembly and they addressed each other as citizen, which
is ironic Brian since the last thing today's American leftists
want to call their supporters is citizen. Today's leftists support
non citizens who broke our laws getting here. They demand
welfare and even voting rights In at least fourteen jurisdictions

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and counting. They demand welfare and even voting rights. And
the highest title for today's leftists is not citizen. It's victim,
as in I'm a victim of racism, sexism, transphobia, and
common sense. The French revolutionaries try to replace Christianity with

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what they called a goddess of reason. It was an
actual person. They found a beautiful woman and she became
the goddess of reason. Then they replaced reason with the
reign of terror. Following the Romans, the French next made
Napoleon Bonaparte their emperor. His invasions cost Europe at least
four million lives, but Napoleon was a peace nick compared

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with Joseph Stalin. His Soviet workers Paradise killed at least
seven million people, some say triple that number. As with Napoleon's,
Stalin did not immediately seize power when Russia rose up
against the Czar. The Russian Revolution's first leader was a
guy named Alexander Kerensky. If you don't remember him, folks,

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it's because Kerensky's Russian Republic lasted just three months. Communist
revolutionaries then chased Kerensky to Paris, then New York, and
ultimately to our West coast. The conservative Hoover Institution, which
promotes liberty through limited government. Kerensky's successor of Vladimir Lenin,

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did not promote limited government, and Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin,
did not promote any limits at all on his own power. Now, Brian,
there may be a few people listening who are now yelling,
what about Donald Trump? Does he promote, does he tolerate?
And he limits to his own power? The answer is yes.

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Put aside for the moment, t Trump's bombing of Sas
state sponsored narco terrorist drug boats were all eager to
hear in a few minutes from Congressman Thomas Massey and
Judge Neapolitano about that. I would only note for now
that whether it's Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary pirates, Reagan
invading Grenada, or Trump destroying Iran's nuclear program, we've had

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lots of debates about when and how Congress ought to
weigh in, But Democrats did not complain when Barack Obama's
drones killed hundreds of foreigners without authorization, including women and
children at weddings, even American citizens. Let's also consider a
different but typical outrage from Joe Biden. The auto pen

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completely ignored the Supreme Court's ruling against the quote forgiveness
of taxpayer funded student loans, and Democrats defended him to
the hilt. By contrast, Donald Trump has submitted to courts everywhere,
from fat Alvin Braggs New York and Fawnie Willis's Atlanta

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straight to the US Supreme Court. It's true Donald Trump
does not preach peace and love for the tens of
millions of illegal migrants that Joe Biden and his borders
are Kamala Harris invited to invade the United States. But again,
Trump is submitting his deportation plans to the courts, where

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he wins some and he loses some. Meantime, Trump has
achieved peace through strength, as Ronald Reagan did peace from
Africa to Cambodia, if we can keep it. Now he's
trying to broke her peace in Ukraine, which never would
have been invaded by Putin had Trump remained president in
twenty twenty one. Trump is the real peace president, most

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important because he persuades nations to trade peacefully and fairly
with the promise of economic growth. That's why is Arab
neighbors are now willing to live peaceably. Growth. The promise
of growth for all is Trump's gift to the world
this holiday season, and God willing, even Trump's enemies will

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realize that constitutional republics, not socialistic tankerships, are the world's
true blessing. What do you say, pal Well?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
First off, I must note that free love at least
didn't involve the American taxpayer dollars. Second, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't know parents and taxpayers they paid taxes to
they supported those kids, and some of them still support
those kids.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
No, I understand that component of it. I'm just saying,
at least didn't cost us money to engage in free love, unless,
of course, you look to the medical ramifications of free
love and the fact that the American taxpayer dollars might
have to end up paying for that, which in and
of itself is a problem. But going back to my
original thought, along those lines, you mentioned the various religions.
People are celebrating this time of year. Yes, and we
all tend to embrace, at least from religious perspective, regardless

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of which religion you are idea that we need to
engage in compassion and to help our brother man those
are truly in need. But what bothers me, over and
over and over again, the Marxists, the Leftists, the communists,
the socialists all endeavor to use our respective faiths against us. Well,
this is the Christian Judeo Christian ethic. You're supposed to
help people in an effort to support some bloated government

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plan that we all find out is replete with fraud, waste,
and abuse, which they don't seem to care about. That's
the part that always angers me. And I've been on
record many times saying if you're in a church or
a synagogue or a mosque and someone in front of
the room is saying you need to support some big
blow to government program because Jesus or Mohammad or I
don't know, it doesn't matter what would do that. That

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is your religious obligation. It belongs to the individual, not
the state, and you're offloading the personal responsibility you have
as a member of that particular religion to do it yourself.
It doesn't substitute your personal obligation. And yet that feeling
of the need to help is used so often against
people of faith to promote some bloated government program that
really doesn't accomplish the goal of helping people who are

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truly in need.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, we discussed this last week. Jesus was not about governments, right,
and we began today talking about these major religions, not
all of them in the world. They all began in love,
but at some points in their history they had followers
embracing terror. God loved his chosen people of Israel, but
those sanctioned people asked for a king. They said, we

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want a king, like all the other nations. And inevitably,
as with all other nations, kings proved to be power
hungry and cruel. Just think of David and Bathsheba and
Bathsheba's wrong husband Uriah. Jesus loved all people and refused
Satan's offer to rule over them on earth. He did

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not want to be a king. But many other rulers,
secular and ecclesiastical, have imposed tyranny in the name of Jesus.
You're right and we discussed several months ago. Now whether
Islam requires violent jihad the sort that al Qaeda demanded.
Listeners can hear that discussion about history. It went all

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the way back to the prophet Mohammad.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
By scrolling down my podcast page, just search for the
big picture with Jack Atherton, it's there all thanks to
you and Joe, and I thank you both for that
every day.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's a public service getting your message out, Jack Avident.
I'm glad Youse Strekker is producing your podcast, and I'm
glad you're doing it, and I'm glad you show up
in the morning. Should have these important conversations. At minimum,
it gets the juices stirring intellectually. It causes people to
stop and pause and think, hmm, maybe I should consider
that in deciding whether or not we need to embrace
some fat government program or more simplistic enough, whether we

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need to put our side our differences in this very
festive time of year, which should be festive for many
many people of all religions and for those who do
not ascribe to a particular religion. Hey, joining the fun.
We're all trying to be in a better mood this
time of year. Why don't you put down your anger
and enjoy the time of year along with the rest
of us. We're all open for the collective celebration of

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well perhaps love.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Amen, Jack Athenan, God bless you, sir. Looking forward to
another calendar year with you next year. Not that we're
over for this year, but thanks again for your time,
your efforts and your energy doing your podcast and this
particular segment on the morning show and as always, best
of health and much love to you.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
And Amesley and you and everybody listening.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
There you go. I agree. Thanks Jack seven nineteen fifty
five KRC, the talk station